Quotes About Flexibility

Open all the doors. Don't commit yourself to just one idea of happiness. Remove the idea of happiness that you have, and then happiness can come, this afternoon.

His had been a love 'which alters when it alteration finds.

It is better to accept any chance that offers itself, and then extemporise a procedure to fit it, than to get a good plan matured, and wait for a chance of using it.

And your dinner for the orchestra officials. Haven't you ever had people coming over and no time to shop? You have to make do with what's in the fridge, Clarice. May I call you Clarice?

Don't try to impose any pattern or symmetry on this guy. Stay open and let him show you.

Siéntate ante los hechos como un niño pequeño, disponte a abandonar cualquier idea preconcebida, sigue a la naturaleza dondequiera y a cualesquiera abismos a los que te lleve, o no aprenderás nada

never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased

As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.

In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

He [Rabbi Menasha Levaartov] was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility of the pious, he might also be honored by the flexibility of the sensible.

It might well be that getting used to things up here was simply a matter of getting used to not getting used to them—but

mas a gente se habitua ao fato de não se habituar.

To cling to one partial view, one limited and conditioned opinion, and to treat this as the ultimate answer to all questions is simply to "obscure the Tao" and make oneself obdurate in error.

In the complexities of real life, seldom is any argument right 100 percent of the time or wrong 100 percent of the time.

The people I feel sorry for are those who insist on continuing to do what they have always done but want the results to be different from what they have always been.

Bence," dedi belli belirsiz, "insan al???r. Ä°nsan her ÅŸeye al???r." "Öyle mi?" diye sordu Jonathan. "Hmm. Nas?l yapt?klar?n? merak ediyorum, ben hiç beceremedim.

Children have no frame of reference with which to understand that those rules are simply choices that his parents have made, and that other families and communities will have different styles of relating and behaving. His focus becomes narrow, he becomes less flexible, and may have trouble as an adult operating outside of the rules set for him by his parents.

our minds lose their footing when our reality doesn't live up to the way we thought things should go.

of unsuitable places.

Anything you want to be, you can come be that with us. Rain or shine, no problem

The more I let go of the life I'd planned, the more I began to love the life I had.

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

Aging does that; it makes you amenable to far more ambiguous feelings and opinions than the inflexible black-and-white thinking of youth.

Do you live by your standards?" "Sometimes...sometimes I do, and other times I do what's expected of me.